Have you stopped for a moment and thought about your future self?  Go ahead, take a few moments.

It’s not a natural state to think about what your future self may look like, but you could be doing yourself a huge disservice by only thinking about your present self.

Mariel Beasley is the co-director of the Common Cents Lab at Duke University, where they focus on helping people make better financial and life decisions based on behavioral science.  Science that helps us determine how to treat our future self just as well as we do today.

Although we may be able to identify and name our shortcomings or biases, Mariel provides a great example around certain physical vs. cognitive limitations.  Although we build tools to help us overcome these physical limitations, we try to re-train our brains around cognitive limitations.

Please enjoy my conversation with Mariel Beasley.

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